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Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture
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- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Subject Area
- Art, Science, History
- Book Title
- Alexander Von Humboldt And The United States: Art, Nature, A...
- Features
- 1st Edition, Slip Cased
- Subject
- United States / 19th Century, American / General, History, History / General
- ISBN
- 9780691200804
- Publication Name
- Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States : Art, Nature, and Culture
- Item Length
- 12.4 in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.8 in
- Item Width
- 10.5 in
- Item Weight
- 97.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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As Featured on Wall Street Journal' s Holiday Books Round-up -Nature The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist, explorer, and illustrator, he was a prolific writer whose books graced the shelves of American artists, scientists, philosophers, and politicians. Humboldt visited the United States for six weeks in 1804, engaging in a lively exchange of ideas with such figures as Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. It was perhaps the most consequential visit by a European traveler in the young nation's history, one that helped to shape an emerging American identity grounded in the natural world. In this beautifully illustrated book, Eleanor Jones Harvey examines how Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics. She shows how he inspired a network of like-minded individuals who would go on to embrace the spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of Native Americans, and extol America's wilderness as a signature component of the nation's sense of self. Harvey traces how Humboldt's ideas influenced the transcendentalists and the landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and laid the foundations for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sierra Club, and the National Park Service. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States looks at paintings, sculptures, maps, and artifacts, and features works by leading American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Church, and Samuel F. B. Morse. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691200807
ISBN-13
9780691200804
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038708332
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States : Art, Nature, and Culture
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
United States / 19th Century, American / General, History, History / General
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Science, History
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
12.4 in
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Width
10.5 in
Item Weight
97.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2019-051714
Intended Audience
College Audience
Lc Classification Number
Nx503.7.H37 2020
Preface by
Sues, Hans-Dieter
Reviews
[A] dense, engrossing project . . . [ Alexander von Humboldt and the United States includes]eight scholarly essays beautifully illustrated with paintings, artifacts, and maps. . . . An archetype of the 'public intellectual' bearing enormous, transformative importance, thoroughly considered in word and image., This handsome, beautifully illustrated, engagingly and perceptively written volume was published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition by the same name. . . . Chapter notes demonstrate Harvey's mastery of the primary materials and the sources that chronicle these developments and the secondary literature built on those sources . . . Essential., "[An] immersive volume . . . [ Alexander von Humboldt and the United States includes] lavishly reproduced portraits of Humboldt contemporaries such as Thomas Jefferson, period maps, animal studies and sculptures related to Humboldt's life and times." ---Danny Heitman, Wall Street Journal, "[A] magnificent book. . . . a book that begs to be read and reread." ---Laura Dassow Walls, Early American Literature
Copyright Date
2020
Dewey Decimal
700.973
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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